Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] t: fixes and improvements for GIT_TEST_LONG

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> Hi,
>
> this series started out as a simple two-patch series that wired up the
> GitLab CI badge in our README and GIT_TEST_LONG for GitLab CI. But as it
> typically goes, tests broke on GitLab CI, which made me realize that
> they are broken even on GitHub's master branch right now. Some tests are
> failing in the linux32 job, and we only didn't notice because the whole
> pipeline hangs.
>
> So I had to go down the rabbit hole a bit, the result of which is this
> patch series.
>
> Changes in v3:
>   - Fix commit subjects to mention correct prerequisite.
>   - Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260703-b4-pks-t-fixes-for-GIT-TEST-LONG-v2-0-79076a7e0c62@pks.im

The interdiff looks trivially correct ;-).

Hopefully we are now ready to declare victory and plan to merge this
to 'next'?

Thanks.


>  1:  e4add14ea7 =  1:  afc7563e22 README: add GitLab CI badge to make it more discoverable
>  2:  d762b4d46e !  2:  753e950eaf t0021: skip EXPENSIVE test that is broken without SIZE_T_IS_32BIT
>     @@ Metadata
>      Author: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
>      
>       ## Commit message ##
>     -    t0021: skip EXPENSIVE test that is broken without SIZE_T_IS_32BIT
>     +    t0021: skip EXPENSIVE test that is broken without SIZE_T_IS_64BIT
>      
>          One of the tests in t0021 writes a 2GB file and then roundtrips it
>          through the clean/sumdge filters. This test is broken on 32 bit
>  3:  8d43eb2819 =  3:  f776e0fb5f t4141: fix inefficient use of dd(1)
>  4:  fcd048f6f7 =  4:  9754b96a43 t5608: reduce maximum disk usage
>  5:  11df7f2cb9 !  5:  0f2e28dc11 t7508: skip EXPENSIVE test that is broken without SIZE_T_IS_32BIT
>     @@ Metadata
>      Author: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
>      
>       ## Commit message ##
>     -    t7508: skip EXPENSIVE test that is broken without SIZE_T_IS_32BIT
>     +    t7508: skip EXPENSIVE test that is broken without SIZE_T_IS_64BIT
>      
>          One of the tests in t7508 is marked as EXPENSIVE because it ends up
>          creating and adding files that are multiple gigabytes in size. This
>  6:  a16bc1754b =  6:  d329a2cd40 t7900: clean up large EXPENSIVE repository
>  7:  b2e6b0d517 =  7:  a336d4ce9e t: use `test_bool_env` to parse GIT_TEST_LONG
>  8:  9632b19164 =  8:  cfff94c79e gitlab-ci: disable RAM disk on macOS jobs
>  9:  a42c613012 =  9:  ed5e8807fe gitlab-ci: enable "GIT_TEST_LONG"
>
> ---
> base-commit: e9019fcafe0040228b8631c30f97ae1adb61bcdc
> change-id: 20260701-b4-pks-t-fixes-for-GIT-TEST-LONG-78e538bf0e06